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2719937Great British Adventurershttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/great-british-adventurers-9781783032235/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2183169/14589ec6-56f6-4f24-8cf0-85b525eba19b.jpg?v=638770440048470000148164MXNRemember WhenInStock/Ebooks/2656097Great British Adventurers148164https://www.gandhi.com.mx/great-british-adventurers-9781783032235/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2183169/14589ec6-56f6-4f24-8cf0-85b525eba19b.jpg?v=638770440048470000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20209781783032235_W3siaWQiOiI5MjhmMTM0OC01NTI2LTQwNjgtODhlMS0zOTgxOWZiMmVmY2IiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE2NCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE0OCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMjdUMTk6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781783032235_<p>In selecting my adventurers, I have had to find limits. The first has been to confine my selection to men and women who are (at least loosely) British and, even then, service and adoption have sometimes, as with Krystyna Skarbeka, taken the place of birth, and I have chosen to ignore such things as competing national claims for Tenzing Norgay. The second limit that I have set myself is generally to exclude heroic adventurers in battle, simply because there is (rightly), so much already written about them, but I have found place for certain (representative) secret agents of the Second World War, whose acts (in voluntary service, beyond the call of simple duty), surely took them out of the arena of straightforward battle and into the realm of the most individual and courageous adventure. The result of these decisions remains to be judged but the overall objective has been to renew interest in the lives of some of our real heroes and heroines, as representative of the many others that there are; in an age in which contemporary sporting and pop art heroes dominate the news and provide the only readily evident inspiration, and also an age in which addiction to the computer screen nearly robs the young of memories and dreams of high adventure; of which ripping yarns are born. The third limit is a limit of time: this speaks for itself; otherwise howwould Drake and Raleigh, Clive of India, General Woolf and Captain Cook not have found their places? There have to be such limits. The final limit has been to exclude those who are widely famed already: what more is there to say of General Gordon or Dr David Livingstone of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Captain Laurence Oates; even though what has been said should often be repeated? Moreover, although Sir Edmund Hillary is acknowledged as the first conqueror of Mount Everest; Tenzing Norgay was there with him and what of George Mallory who, some time before had died, either going up or coming down?To those who might accuse me of having been obscure, I just plead that my purpose has been to bring back into ready remembrance certain men and women, not widely fted now, who had great impact upon the accrual of knowledge of: other peoples, their customs and their countries; or who have striven, often against various obstacles (including the odds), to promote exploration and, sometimes, even to preserve life and liberty for others. To the erudite, who might say that I shed little new light and that the coverage is uneven, I plead, in mitigation of sentence, that my principal purpose has been to remind of worthy lives that might still stir our blood; and to bring them together, as representative of our adventurous people, in one handy volume.James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak 18031868Mary Seacole 18051881 Richard and John Lander 18041834; 18061839Jane Digby 18071881General Sir James Abbott 18071896Colonel John Peard 18111880John William Colenso, 1st Anglican Bishop of Natal 18141883Sir Richard Burton 18211890 and John Hanning Speke 18271854 Emily Hobhouse 18601926Mary Kingsley 18621900Sir Francis Younghusband 18631942Colonel Percy Fawcett 18671925 and, in his wake, Peter Fleming OBE 19071971Cecil Henry Meares 18771937George Mallory 18861924 and Andrew Irvine 19021924Dame Freya Stark 18931993Sir Francis Chichester 19011972Gladys May Aylward 19021970Amy Johnson 19021941Krystyna Skarbek-Granville GM, OBE, Croix de Guerre Avec Palmes, born ca. 19081952Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean 19111996Tenzing Norgay GM 19141986 Violette Szabo GC, MBE 19211945The Present and the FutureColonel John Blashford-Snell b. 1936Sir Ranulf Fiennes b. 1944Alan Hinkes b. 1954Adrian Hayes (45)Kenton Cool b. 1973Dame Ellen MacArthur b. 1976Rebecca Stephens b. 1982Xanadu and William Dalrymple</p>...(*_*)9781783032235_<p>In selecting my adventurers, I have had to find limits. The first has been to confine my selection to men and women who are (at least loosely) British and, even then, service and adoption have sometimes, as with Krystyna Skarbeka, taken the place of birth, and I have chosen to ignore such things as competing national claims for Tenzing Norgay. The second limit that I have set myself is generally to exclude heroic adventurers in battle, simply because there is (rightly), so much already written about them, but I have found place for certain (representative) secret agents of the Second World War, whose acts (in voluntary service, beyond the call of simple duty), surely took them out of the arena of straightforward battle and into the realm of the most individual and courageous adventure. The result of these decisions remains to be judged but the overall objective has been to renew interest in the lives of some of our real heroes and heroines, as representative of the many others that there are; in an age in which contemporary sporting and pop art heroes dominate the news and provide the only readily evident inspiration, and also an age in which addiction to the computer screen nearly robs the young of memories and dreams of high adventure; of which ripping yarns are born. The third limit is a limit of time: this speaks for itself; otherwise howwould Drake and Raleigh, Clive of India, General Woolf and Captain Cook not have found their places? There have to be such limits. The final limit has been to exclude those who are widely famed already: what more is there to say of General Gordon or Dr David Livingstone of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Captain Laurence Oates; even though what has been said should often be repeated? Moreover, although Sir Edmund Hillary is acknowledged as the first conqueror of Mount Everest; Tenzing Norgay was there with him and what of George Mallory who, some time before had died, either going up or coming down?To those who might accuse me of having been obscure, I just plead that my purpose has been to bring back into ready remembrance certain men and women, not widely fted now, who had great impact upon the accrual of knowledge of: other peoples, their customs and their countries; or who have striven, often against various obstacles (including the odds), to promote exploration and, sometimes, even to preserve life and liberty for others. To the erudite, who might say that I shed little new light and that the coverage is uneven, I plead, in mitigation of sentence, that my principal purpose has been to remind of worthy lives that might still stir our blood; and to bring them together, as representative of our adventurous people, in one handy volume.James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak 18031868Mary Seacole 18051881 Richard and John Lander 18041834; 18061839Jane Digby 18071881General Sir James Abbott 18071896Colonel John Peard 18111880John William Colenso, 1st Anglican Bishop of Natal 18141883Sir Richard Burton 18211890 and John Hanning Speke 18271854 Emily Hobhouse 18601926Mary Kingsley 18621900Sir Francis Younghusband 18631942Colonel Percy Fawcett 18671925 and, in his wake, Peter Fleming OBE 19071971Cecil Henry Meares 18771937George Mallory 18861924 and Andrew Irvine 19021924Dame Freya Stark 18931993Sir Francis Chichester 19011972Gladys May Aylward 19021970Amy Johnson 19021941Krystyna Skarbek-Granville GM, OBE, Croix de Guerre Avec Palmes, born ca. 19081952Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean 19111996Tenzing Norgay GM 19141986 Violette Szabo GC, MBE 19211945The Present and the Future[Colonel John Blashford-Snell b. 1936Sir Ranulf Fiennes b. 1944Alan Hinkes b. 1954Adrian Hayes (45)Kenton Cool b. 1973Dame Ellen MacArthur b. 1976Rebecca Stephens b. 1982Xanadu and William Dalrymple]</p>...9781783032235_Pen & Sword Books(*_*)9781783032235_Remember Whenlibro_electonico_7f034148-6375-3ef8-adff-411187929b0f_9781783032235;9781783032235_9781783032235Nicholas StoreyInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-6bef32c9-8018-4537-856e-7e7650e14c87.epub2020-01-24T00:00:00+00:00Remember When